Sex Feb 22, 2010 at 1:53 pm

Today's Punchline: ChatRoulette

Alison Hallett
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PA's piracy cartoon equates to most of what I've seen from PA: Addressing one tenet of the argument. Steam has minimal DRM, users are not up in arms about it, and it is wildly successful. How much piracy of Left4Dead/2 exists? Of WoW?

Companies can do it right, and have done it right, and yet PA thinks there is a strawman's argument?

tsktsk.

As for Chatroulette: Yahoo did this ~10 years ago. Amazing the tech people will discover as "new" these days.
on February 22, 2010 at 2:30 PM Report this
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The Awl is my favoritest. Especially these...

http://www.theawl.com/2009/09/letters-to-t…
kiala on February 22, 2010 at 2:41 PM Report this
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The existence of other arguments doesn't mean that no one is using a strawman argument. That seems so obvious that I might have misunderstood your point?

And neither of those examples are console- or disc-based, right? Doesn't online and streaming play still represent a tiny fraction of the total industry?
Reymont on February 22, 2010 at 3:20 PM Report this
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i learned abotu chatroulette reading "texts from last night". much more shameful i think.
maranda on February 22, 2010 at 11:42 PM Report this
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Reymont:

http://www.pixlmonster.com/gaga/wow/

Represents about 5-15% of THE ENTIRE gaming industry, and has for 4+ years. One_SINGLE_Game!
on February 23, 2010 at 12:14 PM Report this

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